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By the Book
3.18.2008
Ayudeme!
Well, we're getting closer to winding down our school year. The weather is starting to show signs of a warming trend as we work our way steadily closer to springtime. H is really starting to participate more and more in her school activities. She did about 6 workbook pages the other day that consisted of some tracing and coloring objects certain colors. I was very impressed, since she doesn't have the same love of workbooks that her sister has.
We have added something new into our school over the course of the last few weeks. I call them "free days." They are not just totally free, as the name implies. It's basically for when I have a lot of extra things to prepare, kind of like a teacher curriculum day. I tell K it's a free day and she gets to choose between math and reading. They I give her one of two workbooks and let her go. The first day I did this she sat and did over 20 pages in one sitting! It was mostly easy stuff, like copying and extending patterns, circling the larger object, circling the object that holds more, etc. She sure had fun. She gets so excited now when I tell her it's a free day. Yesterday we had a free day and she did the entire chapter on measurements and fractions. Some of the concepts were new to her, so I had to help her a bit, but for the most part, she completed it on her own.
K is still working on her animal science notebook. She has almost all of the Go Diego Go! animals printed off and colored, and she has found a now spot to get pictures of animals. I think by the time we get to 1st grade science next year she will already have studied the 20 animals we're supposed to study! She did say something to me the other day about wanting to pet a baby penguin. I told her maybe someday she could be a zookeeper and get to do that. Later she came up to me and asked me how to become a zookeeper. I told her and she seemed to really like the idea. Who knows, maybe she really will be an animal rescuer like Diego someday! Ayudeme! (<-- Translated to Help me! in Spanish!)
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